Sara Reinke is the author of several books, including AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT, available now in mass-market paperback from Medallion Press. "This is historical romance the way it should be written!" declares NY Times best-selling author Karen Robards. "I loved it!"

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Reinke is also the author of the upcoming vampire/paranormal romance, DARK THIRST, coming July, 2007 from Kensington Publishing's Zebra imprint. "Enjoy this clever take on the genre!" raves Chris Marie Green, author of "Night Rising."

Other titles include Reinke's debut fantasy, BOOK OF DAYS, from Double Dragon Publishing, which was named one of the Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels of 2005 in the annual Preditors & Editors Readers poll and a Finalist in the 2005 Dream Realm Awards competition; BOOK OF THIEVES and the multivolume epic, BOOK OF DRAGONS, all sequels to the award-winning BOOK OF DAYS, plus TETHERS, a science-fiction thriller available now in ebook and trade paperback from Samhain Publishing.

Visit Reinke online at www.sarareinke.com to find out more about these and other upcoming titles, plus enjoy FREE reads -- including the novel-lenth historical romance, HEART'S RANSOM! While you're there, be sure to sign up for her great monthly contests, learn about upcoming chats and appearances through her calendar of events and more!

Reinke's historical romance, AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT welcomes you to England, 1748...a time when romance was irrelevant and adventure was thoroughly unladylike.

"A fresh storyline for fans of historical romance," proclaims Historical Romance Writers.

Charlotte Engle finds herself on the wrong end of a pistol when her coach is stopped by highwaymen. Although Charlotte survives the encounter none the worse for wear, her mother, Lady Epping, decides Charlotte is in need of a husband to protect her.

Charlotte is inclined to agree only when introduced to Kenley Fairfax. Kenley is charming and handsome, a young lord with a sordid past and a reputation for trouble. He's just the sort to strike Charlotte's fancy -- and horrify her mother. When Lady Epping arranges a marriage to an insufferable cad, however, Kenley comes to her rescue declaring she has already agreed to marry him.

Kenley charms and excites Charlotte more than any man she has ever met, but can she really marry someone she has known less than a week? A man with secrets in his life he keeps fiercely guarded? Not to mention one her mother despises?

The closer Charlotte draws to the truth about Kenley, the more she realizes he might be capable of far more treachery than she had believed possible, and the more she finds herself involved in a web of deceit that includes late-night conspiracies, highway robbery, cold-blooded murder, and-most unexpected of all -- love.


Enjoy the following excerpt from AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT:

"Do you want me to stop?" he said, his voice little more than a rumbled murmur from his throat.

She opened her eyes, reeling, and blinked at him as if emerging from a dream. "No," she whispered, shaking her head. He smiled at her, and that damnable voice of reason hissed in her head again. Just as Kenley lowered his face to kiss her again, just as she felt her chin tilt of its own accord to let him, she ducked her head, shrugged her shoulders, and stepped back from him. "I . . . I mean . . . I mean yes. We should not do this."

He stepped against her again, and kissed her throat, his lips reacquainting themselves with those tremulous places only just abandoned and easing up from there toward the curve of her earlobe.

"My . . . my mother will be looking for me," she whimpered, her head leaning back as she presented her neck to him. "I . . . I have to get back . . ."

His lips brushed against her ear; she gasped as he delicately traced along the lines and curves with his tongue. She felt the edge of his tongue hook against the bottom of her earlobe, drawing it lightly between his upper teeth and bottom lip. Her breath hitched in helpless delight as he offered a gentle tug with his mouth. "Please . . . stop . . ."

She planted her hands against his shoulders. "Stop," she whispered. He looked up into her eyes, blessedly and cursedly pausing in his efforts. She forced herself to draw away from him, stumbling backward. "You will see me scolded," she said. "I just . . . I have to get back." She brushed past him, moving for the door, refusing to meet his gaze lest she be tempted to rush back to him.

"Forgive me," he said. She turned to him and his brows lifted in implore. "I should not have done that. It . . . it was untoward and impulsive . . . ungentlemanly, and I . . . totally out of line and character, I promise you. I . . . I forgot myself. It . . . by my breath, Charlotte--please, it will not happen again."

Charlotte smiled, her heart still trembling as the residual thrill of his touch, his kiss faded. "I did not say I minded," she told him, making him blink in surprise. She caught a quick glimpse of his mouth lifting in a smile, opening as he laughed and she turned, ducking out of the room and closing the door behind her.


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